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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 195 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (22 children)

In Windows 10, you could move it to the top, left, or right of the screen.

In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10. Let's not sell short the full extent idiocy on display, here.

"Pouring its engineering resources," my ass.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10.

Sadly not true. Microsoft removed the Start button in a version of Windows before. It was in Windows 8 (and Windows Server 2012 for some godforsaken reason) with the cursed "metro" interface. MS did it for the same stupid reason they're citing here "tablet and touchscreen users". The uproar caused MS to release Windows 8.1 a year later where they returned the Start button.

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sadly not true. Microsoft removed the Start button in a version of Windows before

They didn't say that every version of windows since then had a start button

First of all they only talked about the start menu, which was still part of 8, even if it was annoying and full-screen. And second they only said that every Windows version that had that allowed you to move the taskbar around. Not that every Windows version so far had it.

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